The Ethics Board has charged Chief Judge Mary Oates Walker with hiring her outside business partner Kiyo Oden Tyson as her General Counsel, and then steering Tyson’s husband towards a $43,000 contract to move the agency without a bid and lying about it to the board.

Alex Rodriguez ended his extended and acrimonious fight with Major League Baseball on Friday, withdrawing a pair of lawsuits and accepting a season-long suspension that marks the longest penalty in the sport's history related to performance-enhancing drugs.

Maryland's Board of Education has adopted new student discipline regulations. Under the new regulations, local school systems must adopt policies that reduce long-term out-of-school suspensions and expulsions.

Representatives for New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez are reportedly negotiating a deal with Major League Baseball that would spare him a lifetime ban in exchange for a lengthy suspension, CNN's Rachel Nichols reports.

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